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Writing and Editing Posts in WordPress

This basic tutorial goes over how to write and edit a page in WordPress. She covers using the composer very well as well as adding media. The only difference is we are using posts not pages but the interface is the same.

WordPress.com tutorial: Posts and pages

Citation Practices

Here is a web article about MLA citation using citations and including a Works Cited at the end. A few people were asking about footnotes and end notes. You can see they have a reference to note 1 and a note at the end. Good article to look at how academic professionals do the same work we are doing here.

We talked a little about different citation styles. We are using MLA. There is also APA which is used in the social sciences. The third one used commonly in academia is Chicago style. This is also the style used for most books.

MLA Formatting video

Here is a quick video on how to format your paper in Word for MLA.

Scholarly Research

Scholarly research is research that is published by people with specialized knowledge on what they are researching. It is peer reviewed, reviewed by other researchers and specialist in the field, and is generally trustworthy. Blogs, Newspapers, Magazines are not Scholarly but are popular sources.

You can use the college library to find scholarly/academic research journals that publish articles, reviews, and research. Here is the Chaffey Library’s article research help page. It includes a video and how to find articles.